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Skills & Languages

R
Python
MATLAB
Bash
LaTeX
HTML/CSS
SQL


Dutch (Native)
English (C2)
Norwegian (B2/C1)
French (B1)
German (A2)

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Daniel Roelfs

Biomedical researcher in Computational Psychiatry at the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT) with a focus on neuroimaging and genetics

Work Experience

Doctoral Research Fellow

Multimodal Imaging group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

present - 2019

  • PhD position on neuroimaging and genetics
  • Running a study from conception through writing the final manuscript
  • Writing scripts and pipelines in R, Python, and MATLAB

Research Assistant

EEG Group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2019 - 2018

  • Managing EEG data, data preprocessing and analysis, training new EEG testers, performing EEG experiments
  • Maintaining and adapting preprocessing pipelines for EEG data

Research Assistant

Department of Medical Physics

Rikshospitalet, OUS

2019 - 2018

  • Data collection, managment, and processing in an MRI study on sleep deprivation
  • Preprocessing and analyzing the imaging data and preparing datasets for collaborators
  • Processing and analyzing of data from the video camera

Erasmus Traineeship

EEG Group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2018 - 2017

  • Planning and running EEG experiments on participants
  • Processing and analyzing EEG data using MATLAB

Research Intern

Brain Institute

University Medical Centre Utrecht, NL

2016 - 2015

  • Idenifying risk factors associated with poor prognosis in children with CD or ODD

Undergraduate Research Intern

Emergis, Institute for Psychiatric and Mental Health Care

Goes, NL

2015 - 2014

  • Identifying risk factors associated with physical restraint in acute psychiatric care

Undergraduate Research Intern

Erasmus Cancer Institute Rotterdam

Rotterdam, NL

2014

  • Status research into comorbidities associated with different cancer therapies

Education

The PhD program at the University of Oslo has a distinct research component and educational component. Both need to be fulfilled to qualify for the PhD defense.

PhD, Doctoral Education

University of Oslo

Oslo, NO

present - 2019

  • Doctoral education at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo
  • Courses relevant to neurobiology, advanced statistics, and other academic and non-academic skills

MSc, Biomedicine

Lund University

Lund, SE

2018 - 2016

  • Master’s program in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine
  • Focus on molecular biology and neuroscience

BSc, Pre-medical track

University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University

Middelburg, NL

2015 - 2012

  • Major in the pre-medical science track, minor in philosophy
  • Liberal Arts & Science program
  • Honors College

Epidemiology (summer course)

University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University

Middelburg, NL

2014

  • Summer course in theory and methods behind epidemiology

French Language & Literature (summer course)

Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne

Paris, FR

2013

  • Summer course in French language and literature

Clinical Experience

Assistant nurse/phlebotomist

Gelre Hospital Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn, NL

2016

Awards

ECIP Oral Finalist

World Congress of Psychiatry Genetics

N/A

2021

  • Awarded to promising oral presentations from early-career researchers

International Training Grant

Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience

N/A

2019

  • Grant awarded to scientists to receive training abroad that’ll benefit their research in Norway

Sparbanken Skåne Master Prize

Sparbanksstiftelsen Färs & Frosta, Lund University

N/A

2019

  • Awarded to the best master theses in the field of neuroscience

Commissions

I only listed instances where I was invited for a position on a committee or an organization

Committee Member

NORMENT Early Career Researchers Meeting

N/A

2021 - 2020

  • Organising the conference for early-career researchers at NORMENT
  • Feedback with NORMENT leadership, the venue, and participants

Committee Member

Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience

N/A

2021 - 2019

  • Organization of the national conference for neuroscience PhD candidates

General Board Member (Fundraising portfolio)

The Netherlands Red Cross Student Desk Zeeland

N/A

2015 - 2014

  • Coordination with regional and national Red Cross offices
  • Organization of first aid stations at local festivals and events

Portfolio

I occasionally write blogposts that serve as tutorials or showcases for how I solve certain data science problems

Personal website/blog

danielroelfs.com

N/A

present - 2019

  • Includes tutorials on statistics (link, link) and data visualization (link, link)
  • Tutorials contain code written in R and Python, website is generated using Hugo and Rmarkdown hosted through GitHub and Netlify

Talks & Presentations

danielroelfs.github.io/slides

N/A

present - 2019

  • Webpage where I collect all slides and files for talks, workshops, and presentations I’ve given since the start of my PhD
  • Among others slides for a number of conference presentations (link, link) and talk on the importance of design in science (link, link)

Bilkollektivet Trip Cost Calculator

danielroelfs.shinyapps.io/bilkollektivet

N/A

present - 2020

  • Interactive web app to quickly calculate and compare the cost of a trip with car-sharing service Bilkollektivet

Virtual Open Science Escape Room

norment.github.io/ecrm20_escaperoom

N/A

2020

  • Developed for scientists to learn about open science in a social setting

Introduction To Basic Statistics in R

For internal purposes

N/A

2019

  • Gentle introduction to performing statistical analysis and plotting in R
  • Intended for NORMENT employees and other medical researchers

{normentR} R package

github.com/norment/normentR

N/A

2019

  • R package for internal use at NORMENT
  • Contains function to simulate data for debugging and testing analysis and data visualization pipelines

Selected Publications

Full list of articles on which I am a (co-)author is available on my ORCID or Google Scholar profile

Genetic overlap between multivariate measures of human functional brain connectivity and psychiatric disorders

medRxiv

N/A

2022

  • First author
  • Co-authored with a.o. Oleksandr Frei, Dennis van der Meer, Ole Andreassen, Lars Westlye, and supervised by Tobias Kaufmann

The genetic architecture of human cortical folding

Science Advances

N/A

2021

  • Co-author, first author is Dennis van der Meer

Phenotypically independent profiles relevant to mental health are genetically correlated

Translational Psychiatry

N/A

2021

  • First author
  • Co-authored with Dag Alnæs, Oleksandr Frei, Dennis van der Meer, Olav Smeland, Ole Andreassen, Lars Westlye, and supervised by Tobias Kaufmann

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Last updated on 2022-03-23.